skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I’d call a JPEG decoding library “niche”.

There are some numbers here on the performance improvements he’s managed to make.

https://atomic14.substack.com/p/even-faster-jpeg-decoding
>There really is no such thing as 'gamers', any more than there are 'movie-goers' or 'streamers

I do think there are such things as movie-goers and streamers. There is a difference between "I watch a marvel movie a few times a year" and "I watch a few different kinds of movies a month and discuss them at movie club meetings".

We can bikeshed the name but I'm really just talking about enthusiasts who do more than popular consumption within a hobby/medium.The stereotype doesn't matter much to my main point.

>As long as companies can change their TOS, content or even the availability of their game, the review system should be equally flexible.

My point was that review systems are not the place for "flexible" reviews, unless the game itself fundamentally changed. You can make petitions and post on social media and make videos and all that. But I don't think a user review platform is the place for the aforementioned tribalism.

The only reason I'm not fully against it is because consumers shouldn't just base their purchase of products on how popular it is (a literal fallacy in debate). They should be able to read some reviews, see that it useless or tribal to your opinon, and find proper reviews or ways to evaluate media. But that's a bigger societal can of worms to open.
And the answer is "depends on the database tech".

Here are some nice benchmarks: https://www.toomanyafterthoughts.com/uuids-are-bad-for-datab...

I learned the lexically-sortable-id trick from wizened DBAs in the 90s. It's an old trick. I've applied it myself to speed things up and have used both the ULID types described in the article and UUIDv7 etc.

I even advocate using UUID7 on BigQuery where there are no indexes. Having sortable keys is nice even if it doesn't add speed.
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haha, yes, that's usually the way it goes!
I don't like the method but I do also think that this guy is a borderline-scammer.
There are tons of things he should not say about the technology OpenAI develops that he intentionally does to create hype, even if it is irresponsible.

But the worst to me, by far, is to make OpenAI a for-profit organisation that does not release the models. More than that, he ordered to kill official support for other projects like OpenGym and others.
The impact of this change does not matter. It is dishonest and possibly has some level of illegality in it.
He is literally surfing the hype as did the crypto guys.
Can somebody give me the context or argument for why this isn't a straight up violation of free-speech? I came in all ready to side against Amazon, but the article is pretty barren on what led to the decision.
> The main technical reason is that the vast majority of UPSes cannot take what they give. If you have a 1000 VA UPS that is loaded at or near 1000 VA, it will draw significantly more than 1000 VA during periods of recharging, or if you make use of the non-protected outlets on certain models, or if the model is a double-conversion type. Thus, daisy-chaining two identically-sized UPSes will never work; they always need more input power capacity than they can output.

It really depends on the model. The UPS I have takes uses barely any watts to recharge over a period of multiple hours.
Actually, it's not hashing either, it's just encoding. Anyone who knows the alphabet can easily decode them.
Everyone lacks passionate workers for the semiconductor industry - it is hard, unforgiving work, which nevertheless require a high skill/education level. US cannot find or make these workers, so import thousands from Taiwan. Now Taiwan can find them either, so need to import them again from elsewhere. There is a reason why this type of work was offshored in the first place, the people who can do it would more often like to do something else.
Alot of people also make money standing on the shoulders of people who made free software
I agree with then that it is better to not require DEI (due to the reasons they mention there (they are compelled speech and are irrelevant to what you are applying for, and that there are other contributions that are independent from DEI, as explained there), and others), but that does not necessarily mean that DEI should be banned; it only means that they should not be required, and that DEI statements alone are not a suitable criteria for admission. What is a suitable criteria is your competence at your work, if you have done it good.

Wikipedia says "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability." This is not inherently a bad thing, although bad things can be (and are) done with it (like bad things can be (and are) done with many things), such as the required DEI statements over everything else.

Just because someone wrote a DEI statement does not necessarily mean that they are not qualified (or good at science or whatever it is they are applying for) nor does it necessary mean that they are qualified, and the same is true if they did not make a DEI statement.

One article (apparently by the same author) mentions that the Canadian government denied Patanjali Kambhampati (a physical chemist who seems quite accomplished, and works on quantum dots, has published 132 papers, and has an h index of 37) grants because he refuses to write the kind of woke diversity statement that the Canadian grant authorities demand. It also says, "What's even worse than diversity statements, is evaluating them as the first step in the grant-giving process". Of course, a better evaluation should be by the scientific merit, not by diversity statements.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270596.
With games you often really can not separate the publisher, the studio and the game from each other. And honestly in feedback consumer should not need to care where the demand for change came from. Maybe attacking studio is not fair, but attacking game due to changes by publisher or developer certainly is.
This is a great article, but arguably the world doesn’t have to be this way.

We don’t have to accept this as the status quo. Learning to both realize this that this article is true then reject this as “ok” and acceptable is the next step.

Sure, other people might not care about all these things, but you can make the world less shitty if you care about those things.
> This approach bears strong resemblance to the manner in which “Jia Tan” positioned themselves in the XZ/liblzma backdoor.

No, it doesn't. I stopped after read this. Jia's "attack" was near state level actor stuff. A bunch of emails asking/begging for commit access sounds like a 16 year old sending emails from the basement of his parent's house.
"And please, speak as you might, to a young child; or, a Golden Retriever" -- I, when I'm reading academic papers. Also I, when I'm trying to review a pull request.
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Yeah, overall Bristol isn't too bad – I've lived in worse places. However, many footpaths are very narrow – sometimes not even enough for two people to walk side-by-side – and there just isn't any more space unless you half the parking. That would actually be good eventually IMHO, but is a far larger change than the previous poster was suggesting.

In some ways these small narrow roads are better by the way, even for non-cars. Everyone understands the need to share the road. Big roads seem to create a "this is for cars only and everything else doesn't belong here and shouldn't be here" type of mindset.
Your argument only holds where prices reflect the real (internal + external) cost. Otherwise you are bound to market failure (which has already happened to the transportation market).
I managed to escape, but like a cult it also meant leaving behind a lot of folks that wouldn't come with me.
I edited to clarify that I was meaning future tense.
Yes, very old news.
What about hostile takeover of existing maintainer accounts?
Probably not haha.

You're right, the Harz has a lot of interesting and more recent history. There's a graveyard: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfriedhof_Oderbr%C3%BCck

I'm hiking the broken for "sunrise" every 26th of Decembre and I know how cruel the weather is up there. It has fog 2/3 of the time and has single digits (celsius) most of the time. Pretty interesting place. Also one of the lowest natural tree limits in the world with a meager 1142m.
The terminal graphics characters seem useful, not just for emulating vintage terminals and PCs but also in "modern" terminal windows and TUIs.

Though I'd also like to see more terminal emulator programs with integrated graphics support.
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They are solutions to complex problems. dimal specifically described the behavior of imagining a problem you don't have, and solving it.
Huh. I thought the big fat DRM warning was from Steam, but after your post and before replying, I checked without extensions, and it didn’t show up. So this is actually a feature of the Augmented Steam extension [0]: https://i.imgur.com/5QKoUJB.png

[0]: https://augmentedsteam.com/
This is dishonest. Try again, please. Why was "access to the rest of the world", by which I guess you mean the Egypt-Israeli blockade, put in place? When?
> I'm not expecting or even wanting HA to do autoupdates. A good framing of the crux of the problem here is that I want to use HA but not HAOS.

You can do that. It's not even hard, the HA documentation is pretty stellar in that regard: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#advanced-install...

The HA team rightly doesn't want to officially support it, to avoid being inundated by people who don't want to keep the pieces.

> Yes, the point is wanting to keep them as part of my overarching OS-level deployment config so that I can manage them along side email, nginx, matrix, netfilter, hostapd, kodi, etc.

Then this is just not going to happen, unless the world changes a lot. There's just no way something like HA can be both useful for most people, and be released according to the Debian Stable calendar. HA has to move fast to adapt to third-party API changes, new integrations, and to just be able to bring features to users.

> I only brought up NixOS specifically because you asked for an example of a different approach of encapsulating and abstracting service configuration.

NixOS is not that much different from the HA approach. You also can't just get into the NixOS system and edit random files in its storage tree, you'll end up with a broken system. So you need to create a new flake, and then do the changes within this flake's env. If it's a deep dependency, you'll need to modify the dependent software to use your new patched version.

Of course, nix is far more flexible than HAOS, but then they also are made for different kinds of users.
Ownership Fuels Performance (and it starts at the top)
If we’re going by giant enterprise standards then Windows XP is the latest version of windows
Yeah that code example is odd to say the least.
yeah, even the disclaimer is identical. Original Secretllama poster at least talked about web-llm package which powers it. But this is a just a clone. How sad.
I worked on a team for a short while that decided to use Cassandra to store a few hundred thousand accounts, despite the data changing only slowly and being an exact match for a relational database. It was one of the worst choices I've ever seen in my career, and the only reason I could find was that people at the time wanted to learn Cassandra.
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Why did Eclipse org get so much and Apache org none/less? In my experience, the footprint of Apache exceeds anything else in enterprise programming.
Assuming the project/tool was interesting and that was a concern, why not just forward it to your legal department (or manager) to get clarification on if it's an option?
They are open to the internet but each ingress is using the “external auth” feature of nginx ingress, pointing to our internal login. There’s no vpn or magic ip addresses. Once you’re logged in, you can access whatever you need.
Isn't that just a crime in and of itself? Wouldn't that entitle the government to just arrest and charge that particular person with these crimes? I think that stands a chance of ending well, or at least, justly.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267817.
This is dishonest. Why were these measures put in place? If any part of your answer is "to oppress Palestinians" the answer is wrong and you should update your information.
>You can’t bot it unless you are ready to spend thousands of $$$.

By this point I wouldn't be surprised if some did. It's a pretty tiny price to sway an entire public's opinion.

But i think the more realistic issue here is brigading. Gamers can easily coordinate together and use their accounts to post/change their reviews simply because "[social media] told me to"

>This plus the playtime tag next to the review arguably makes it more valuable than the often bought out “gaming journalist” crowd’s opinion.

As long as people don't read the actual reviews and they simply look at a number or blue/red text, the core issue doesn't change. Review bombs wouldn't work if people weren't so shallow about how they research their purchase.

But I suppose that's a bigger can of worms.
My understanding is that minimizing perplexity (what LLMs are generally optimized for) is equivalent to finding a good probably distribution over the next token.
It’s not, but it’s nuanced.

The US Constitution applies to any US Person - someone within the US’ international borders, regardless of citizenship status.

Banning a foreign news outlet who broadcasts outside the US isn’t violating anyone’s 1st amendment rights.
> The next project would be Willow Rock Energy Storage Center, located near Rosamond in Kern County, California, with a capacity of 500 megawatts and the ability to run at that level for eight hours.

Their California battery will be 4GWh capacity with a $1.5 billion cost, which is $375/kWh. Their Australian one will be 1.6GWh for $415 million USD, working out to be $260/kWh. Both are more expensive than lithium ion, so I wonder what the case is for it.
From 100 000 before the islamic revolution to 8 000 today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews

The ethnic cleansing isn't totally complete, but it's quite close. It's nice that the Ayatolla made a fatwa to protect them though. But if I were Jewish in Iran I would expect that protection to fall the second the Ayatolla dies.
How not to change PostgreSQL column type
> who has contributed over time

When major security players insist that using GPG is bad, there is no way of knowing if bob@bob.bob is the same account that it was last month or not.
The rules are as open to change as the data I guess, but if there really isn't one obvious "proper" name I've seen things named with a slash like "name 1/name 2". Often there is specific tagging to overcome this, though. For example in bilingual countries like Wales many roads have any English and Welsh name. The language-specific names are uncontroversial, but the overall "name" (for the international map) is supposed to be in the "local language". As you can imagine this isn't always uncontroversial.
> They're more happy to pay the fines and continue than so.

Yes? Thats the whole point isn’t it? Imagine a race where there’s speed credits. The fastes runners won’t slow down, but they’ll end up distributing part of their winnings to those who run slower, giving them a better chance to stay in the game.

Carbon credits aren’t intended to get companies to stop polluting, that would require laws, but they make it more expensive to polite without reason and create a profit potential for greener initiatives.

All of that depends on the credits not being phantom credits though. And therein lies a big issue with things like offsets. You can only sell cutting down a tree once, but you can sell not cutting down a tree infinite times, you can even sell not cutting down a tree that doesn’t exist.
Bundeswehr's classified meetings found online
Don't you think that's impractical? All attempts to stop people from using the Internet to do things on their own have failed. If the creation of such images is considered a crime in itself, then it will be obscured. Therefore, treating dissemination as a crime is not only logical, but also practical.
And when it comes to accidental leaks, even if the person who created the image didn't pay attention, the leak happens by somebody anyway. I think it would be more practical and lead a better result to punish those responsible for the leak itself
So the long game is rival countries are secretly collaborating, so we secretly have world peace!
The implicit premise in this argument is that safety is an add-on that you buy or install like an antivirus package. If we designed to encourage less dangerous forms of transportation from the start, there may be cost savings that aren’t surfaced in the “add-on safety” cost calculation.
> Should we outlaw executives having business-related phone calls or face-to-face conversations, too?

Or outlaw writing their memos on flashpaper?

Really, their written communications need to be discoverable. And it wouldn't be unreasonable to require at least notes be taken of their phone calls and meetings.
The major projects aren't on github.
They can ban whatever they want, after all its a democracy only in name. I'd be far more concerned about Israel using its direct influence or its proxies to ban TikTok in the United States.
Many areas in Americas cannot even afford sidewalks...
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If it had beyond human capabilities it means pilot judged the size incorrectly. Pilots are routinely flying in a plane-sized objects among other plane-sized objects and tends to subconsciously assign plane size to everything they see. It was a drone or a bird or small balloon.
> This is still fairly close to literally reinventing the wheel, or adding complexity, a RC car.

It's really not. If your chair overturns and traps a disabled user, it can be a death sentence for them. If your battery starts burning, your user _might_ _not_ _be_ _able_ to escape the flame.
In the US almost no-one would say "asian" for any country west of Nepal. Sometimes they say "south-asian" for India or the surrounding countries, but even that term is only sometimes extended out to pakistan.
Peddle to the mettle, bay bee.
> All I want is speed dial, pulse switch, and on/off switch.

Really? I want "quiet". A certain level of noise is inevitable, and blenders are way, way past that point. They're louder than food processors!
That was left as an exercise for the reader :-/

> I am not going to cover all the reasons why Ulid is better, but in the end, it's up to your personal preference.
For people in The Netherlands: all Smart Meters that the net maintainers installed (are required to) support the P1 standard, which provides a standardized interface for customers to read out current current draw, cumulative power use, etc. Usually gas is hooked as well.

You can hook up a cheap dongle to expose the stats in an app. For instance, we use:

https://www.homewizard.com/nl/shop/wi-fi-p1-meter/

This meter also exposes an API on the local network. I have written a small driver for the SmartThings Hub, so that you can get the stats/graphs in the SmartThings app as well (we use a SmartThings hub for Zigbee/Z-Wave devices):

https://github.com/danieldk/homewizard-energy
IMO Ariane was pretty straightforward and reasonable, all things considered. In fact it’s preferable to navigating the usual wobbly maze of humans each of which takes days to respond.
> Why so hostile?

This sort of thread pops up again and again on HN. It's frustrating to read comment after comment of people being confidently wrong about your vocation.
I agree with you up until the cliche "code is the easy part".
People say this at the same time that they complain that people with 10 years of experience can't even solve FizzBuzz.

The amount of badly architectured, buggy code I've seen in a couple of decades working with software tells me that "code is the easy part" is an absolute lie.

Writing good code that's well tested and mostly just works, while being efficient, is such an extremely difficult task that I am not sure many developers in the world can do it. So, no, code is not the easy part, it's only the part where you can probably escape accountability (as no one will be able to tell) unless you have good devs in your team that can properly code review (which is also very rare).
> "Diversity" has a commonly accepted meaning which in the US at least, means everything except white men.

Unfortunately this is common, because they do bad things with "diversity", even though diversity itself isn't bad. This isn't a very good defintion of what "diversity" should be, of course. There are many kind of diversity, and which are more important depends on the situation. But, regardless of it, diversity includes white men (and everyone else, too).

Visible diversity in skin colours, height, etc can be relevant for some things (e.g. movies that will have a lot of different people, or when doing research for a computer program that works on pictures of people (to do compression, colour correction for lighting conditions, etc)). Diversity in experience (even if all of them happen to be white men) can be relevant for many things (and is very helpful).

Of course, none of this should mean that you should deny application of other diversity because of their skin colours, height, gender, etc; they should not deny an application for such reasons. Having women in the White House Communications Team is not a bad thing, but that doesn't mean that having men is a bad thing!!! Having men is not a bad thing. One thing being good does not make the other one bad.
Just as a side point, approx 3-4% of slaves ended up in North America.
Most went to the Carribbean and South America (Brazil mainly).
Nobody ever seems to want to talk about those countries though for some reason.
Nor do they seem particularly interested in the slave trade that exists now in many countries in one form or another.
My guess is its because these other examples are not politically useful.
It’s easier to defend than you think. It’s enough to show that there was no proof of that they didn’t work at the time of introduction, and there was indication that it maybe worked. I definitely don’t have the knowledge to prove or disprove it. If there is no evidence now about its efficacy, it should be removed. Unfortunately, I’ve seen 0 discussions which mentioned any hard evidence. Even in this case, it was removed because of feelings according to the link.